HMS Holdings Corp. Announces Third Quarter 2009 Results; 2009 Revised Guidance and Initial 2010 Guidance

• Q3 2009 Revenue of $59.2 million (+21%y/y), EPS $0.30 (+30% y/y)
• 2009 EPS Guidance Increased to $1.08 from $1.05 (+35% y/y)
• 2010 Initial EPS Guidance of $1.34 (+24% y/y)

• Press Release
• Source: HMS Holdings Corp.
• On 7:30 am EDT, Friday October 30, 2009

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HMSY - News) today announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2009.

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For the quarter ended September 30, 2009 revenue increased 20.8% to $ 59.2 million, compared with $49.0 million for the same period a year ago. Net income for the quarter was $ 8.4 million (+36.4%) or $0. 30 (+30.4%) per diluted common share compared to net income of $6.1 million or $0.23 per diluted common share for the same period a year ago.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2009, HMS reported revenue of $162.9 million, an increase of $30.8 million or 23.3% from the $132.1 million for the same period a year ago. HMS reported net income of $ 20.7 million (+44.7%) or $0. 75 (+41.5%) per diluted common share for the nine months ended September 30, 2009, compared to net income of $14.3 million or $0.53 per diluted common share for the same period a year ago.

“Customers in each of our markets are benefiting from the scope and quality of our coordination of benefits and program integrity offerings,” said Bill Lucia, CEO of HMS. “We see broad opportunities in the marketplace, and continue to offer our clients unique program savings initiatives that will become even more critical as the nation seeks to finance the expansion of healthcare coverage.”

Guidance for 2009 and 2010

The Company announced it has increased its 2009 guidance from $222.0 million in revenue, $67.5 million in adjusted EBITDA and $1.05 in fully diluted EPS to $228.5 million (+23.9% y/y) in revenue, $70.4 million (+35.4% y/y) in adjusted EBITDA and $1.08 (+35.0% y/y) in fully diluted EPS.

The Company also announced its initial guidance for 2010. Revenue is projected to grow to $280.5 million (+22.8% over revised 2009 guidance). Adjusted EBITDA is expected to increase to $83.8 million (+18.9% over 2009 revised guidance), and fully diluted EPS is projected to increase to $1.34 (+24.1% over 2009 revised guidance).

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The Company reported cash balances at the end of September 2009 of $69.5 million, an increase of $12.6 million from the end of the second quarter of 2009. Cash balances are invested in low-risk, highly secure money market funds. On October 28, 2009, the Company paid down in its entirety its outstanding term loan balance of $12.6 million. The Company has no borrowings under its $25 million revolving credit facility, which expires in September 2011.

HMS will be hosting its third quarter 2009 conference call with the investment community on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 9:00 am Eastern Time. The conference call number is US/Canada (866) 394-8630 Int'l/Local Dial-In: (706) 758-0082 Conference ID: 36157807. A slide presentation will accompany the conference call and may be accessed through our website at http://www.hms.com/investor_relations/investors_quarterly_results.asp

A conference call replay will be available beginning October 30, 2009 at 10:00 AM ET through November 6, 2009 11:59 PM ET. To listen to the replay of the call, dial: US/Canada: (800) 642-1687 Int'l/Local Dial-In: (706) 645-9291 Conference ID: 36157807 or visit our website at http://www.hms.com/investor_relations/investors_quarterly_results.asp

Our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2009 will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and available on our website www.hms.com on or about November 14, 2009, and will contain additional information about our results of operations for the fiscal year-to-date. This press release and the interim financial statements herein will be available at http://www.hms.com for at least a 12-month period. Shareholders and interested investors are welcome to contact HMSY Investor Relations at 212-857-5986. Following the filing of the Form 10-Q, corporate executives will be available to respond to inquiries from shareholders and interested investors.

HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HMSY - News) is the leader in coordination of benefits and program integrity services for government healthcare programs. The company’s clients include health and human services programs in more than 40 states, 100 Medicaid managed care plans, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and Veterans Administration facilities. HMS helps ensure that healthcare claims are paid correctly and by the responsible party. As a result of the company’s services, government healthcare programs recover over $1 billion annually, and avoid billions of dollars more in erroneous payments.

This press release includes presentations of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) and adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA represents EBITDA adjusted for share-based compensation expense. EBITDA is a measure commonly used by the capital markets to value enterprises. Interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization can vary significantly between companies due in part to differences in accounting policies, tax strategies, levels of indebtedness and interest rates. Excluding these items provides insight into the underlying results of operations and facilitates comparisons between HMSY and other companies. EBITDA is also a useful measure of the Company’s ability to service debt and is one of the measures used for determining debt covenant compliance. In addition, because of the varying methodologies for determining share-based compensation expense, and the subjective assumptions involved in those determinations, we believe excluding share-based compensation expense from EBITDA enhances the ability of management and investors to compare our core operating results over multiple periods with those of other companies. Management believes EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA information is useful to investors for these reasons. Both EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures and should not be viewed as an alternative to GAAP measures of performance. Management believes the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure is net income and has provided a reconciliation of EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA to net income in this press release.

Certain statements in this press release constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the “Reform Act”). Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements of HMSY, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: (i) the information being of a preliminary nature and therefore subject to further adjustment; (ii) the uncertainties of litigation; (iii) HMSY’s dependence on significant customers; (iv) changing conditions in the healthcare industry which could simplify the reimbursement process and adversely affect HMSY’s business; (v) government regulatory and political pressures which could reduce the rate of growth of healthcare expenditures and/or discourage the assertion of claims for reimbursement against and delay the ultimate receipt of payment from third party payors; (vi) competitive actions by other companies, including the development by competitors of new or superior services or products or the entry into the market of new competitors; (vii) all the risks inherent in the development, introduction, and implementation of new products and services; and (viii) other risk factors described from time to time in HMSY’s filings with the SEC, including HMSY’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008. HMSY assumes no responsibility to update the forward-looking statements contained in this release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. When/if used in this release, the words “focus”, "believe”, “confident”, “anticipate”, “expected”, “strong”, “potential”, and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, and the above described risks inherent therein.

HMS HOLDINGS CORP. AND SUBSIDIARIES

Reconciliation of net income to EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

(unaudited)

As summarized in the following table, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and share-based compensation expense (adjusted EBITDA) was $19.1 million for the third quarter of 2009, an increase of 31.1% over the same period a year ago. For the nine months ended September 30, 2009, adjusted EBITDA was $50.0 million, an increase of 37.8% over the nine months ended September 30, 2008.

HMS Holdings Corp.
(investor relations)
Christine Rogers Saenz, 212-857-5986
csaenz@hms.com
OR
(media relations)
Francesca Marraro, 212-857-5442
fmarraro@hms.com